income

Income

The money a person makes from labor, investment, or any other source, especially in the course of a year. Receiving income is the goal of all commerce. It is usually taxed by the government. See also: Income tax.

income

money received by individuals and firms in the form of WAGES, SALARIES, RENT, INTEREST, PROFIT, etc., together with unemployment benefit, old age pensions, etc. In microeconomic analysis, the term ‘income’ is used specifically to refer to the flow of returns over a period of time from providing FACTORS OF PRODUCTION (NATURAL RESOURCES, LABOUR and CAPITAL) in the form of rent, wages and interest/profit, respectively. In macroeconomic analysis, the term NATIONAL INCOME is used to refer to the aggregate income of a country from rents, wages, interest and payments, excluding TRANSFER PAYMENTS (unemployment benefit, old age pensions, etc.).

income

(1) For IRS purposes, income is never precisely defined, but it apparently includes all moneys received from any sources unless specifically excluded by some IRS Code provision. (2) In business, all the revenues derived from the business, less all expenses. Many people use the word income interchangeably with revenues,but revenue implies a gross figure without deductions,and income implies an amount after expenses.

Income

The word "income," in its broad sense, is the gain derived from capital, labor, or a combination of the two. It is distinguishable from the capital itself. Ordinarily, for income tax purposes, the word "income" is not used alone. Rather it is used within such descriptive terms as gross income, taxable income, and adjusted gross income, all of which are defined elsewhere in this glossary.

In the end, the donor receives a charitable contribution for income tax purposes in the year of the asset transfer, the charitable contribution is exempt from gift tax and the value of the charitable component now has been transferred out of the donor's estate for estate tax purposes.

In this model, there is typically limited incentive for agents, brokers, planners and other financial advisers to steer their clients toward purchasing an income annuity, since this involves transferring assets from the client's portfolio to an insurance company.

Ministers living in church-provided parsonages, for example, do not have to include the fair rental value of their homes in their gross income and may exclude a designated allowance for utilities and upkeep to the extent of actual expenses.

Hints from the White House suggest that in his State of Union address, Bush will call for making last year's tax cuts permanent and perhaps for replacing the corporate income tax With a far more regressive national sales tax--a move that, if successful, would probably put the personal income tax on the road to oblivion, too.

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